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Steven Waldman
How Many Obamagelicals Are There?
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The few of us who argued over the years that Democrats would be wise to court evangelicals were usually told that such a strategy was a waste of time and resources. Those pro-life, anti-gay “fundamentalists” would never vote Democratic. Barack Obama has taken a more enlightened view courting evangelicals with a vengeance. Time to get…
Introducing… “Pious But Not Religious”
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swaldman
We often look at the religious landscape in binary terms – believers vs. nonbelievers, churchgoers vs. atheists, the “religious” vs. “secularists”. It’s time too add a new group: “pious but not religious.” For a while now, some pollsters have tracked an increasing number of people who call themselves “spiritual but not religious.” We’ve found at…
Obamagelicals & the God Gap
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swaldman
Buried in the spectacularly deep new U.S. Religious Landscape Survey are some statistics of great interest to politicos, especially on the three big religion-and-politics questions of 2008. The God Gap Is Gone — In past elections the most religious voters clearly broke for the Republicans, and Democrats were increasingly seen as hostile to religion. Even…
Fruitcakes, Obama and Dobson
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swaldman
My take on ABCNews on James Dobson’s attack against Barack Obama.
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